Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>]

According to Darren Stalder:
> I was just going to have it be it's own arch ($cpu-$system-shared).
> But then I realized that this would mean that all the various arch
> dependent packages will have to be recompiled for it such as DBI and
> PerlMagick.

Yup.  But that's may be necessary anyway.  Correct me if I'm wrong,
but wouldn't users of a shared libperl usually require MULTIPLICITY?
If so, that's a new arch, thus:

> 2) There will have to be a shared Perl binary to run the various build
>    utilities at the very least
> 2) Ignore criteria #3 and just be forced to build multiple Perl versions
>    of packages.

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